Source-level evidence
Every signal, score and recommendation links back to the underlying record — the email, the filing, the transaction, the document — with the source visible at a click.
Strategy & Corporate Development
Every screen, target and market view on a graph that never forgets.
For strategy, M&A, market intelligence and investment teams.
Strategy work is drowning in PDFs, decks and one-off screens that go stale the moment they land. Compass turns market, competitor and target intelligence into a living graph — reusable across every diligence, every screen, every board update.
The problem
Every diligence starts from scratch. Competitor intel lives in a Slack channel. Target lists are Excel files no one updates. Board decks eat weeks of analyst time and go out of date before the next meeting.
Data we integrate
- 01Company registries, financials, filings (Companies House, InfoCamere, SEC, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook)
- 02News & analyst reports (Factiva, Reuters, sector journals)
- 03Patents, tenders, product launches, hiring signals (LinkedIn)
- 04Internal CRM, deal room and diligence data rooms
- 05Alt-data — web traffic, app usage, satellite, review platforms
How we contextualize
- Entity resolution across markets, subsidiaries and product lines.
- Continuous competitor and target monitoring — never a one-off report again.
- Cross-references public signals with the internal CRM and prior diligence.
- Every claim in the deck is cited and clickable back to the source.
AI Skills available to this team
Revenue
Competitive Intelligence Watch
Monitors competitor moves — pricing, product launches, hires, deal wins — and pushes battle cards into deal rooms automatically.
Run skill
Risk & Compliance
Third-Party Due Diligence
Builds an evidence-backed dossier on any counterparty — ownership, litigation, sanctions, adverse media — in minutes instead of days.
Run skill
Trade & Supply Chain
Counterparty Network Map
Reveals hidden ownership chains, intermediaries and shared directors across a portfolio of counterparties.
Run skill
Investigation
Adverse Media Sweep
Runs multilingual adverse media checks across news, court filings and gazettes — deduplicated, ranked and cited.
Run skill
What you get out
Reports, decks, Excel, dashboards and alerts — ready to ship.
Deck
Board & investment committee deck
Auto-built deck with market map, target profile, competitive positioning, risks and evidence citations.
Brief (PDF)
Target company dossier
Full profile: ownership, financials, leadership, litigation, adverse media, competitive positioning.
Excel
Screen & scoring model
Structured screen of the universe with configurable criteria, weights and rankings.
Dashboard
Market & competitor watchtower
Live view of moves that matter — funding, hires, launches, M&A, regulatory shifts.
Alert
‘Strategic move’ alerts
Push notifications when a target or competitor makes a move that changes the thesis.
A concrete case
M&A screening: 1,200 candidates to a shortlist of 12 in a week.
A corp-dev team ran a European add-on screen. Compass pulled registries, financials, patents, hiring signals and competitive positioning; resolved entities; and scored 1,200 candidates against the strategic thesis. The output: a live shortlist of 12, a citation-backed dossier per target and a board deck that regenerated automatically the week before the committee — with a red-flag scan flagging one target for pending litigation the seller had not disclosed.
Trust by design
Evidence, explainability, audit — built into every output.
Explainable recommendations
No black-box outputs. Each priority states why it was promoted, which signals contributed, which were declassed, and which model version produced it.
Audit trail by default
Signals, model versions, reviewers and actions are logged and reconstructable later — ready for internal control, regulators and your own governance.
Human-in-the-loop
Compass recommends. Authorized people decide. Every consequential action requires a named reviewer who can confirm, override or annotate the reasoning.
See Compass on your data.
We bring a demo on your domain: which relationships emerge, which signals fire, which outputs we could deliver today.